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Asked: 2026-05-11T21:58:06+00:00

I was wondering if there was any way in PHP to pass an external

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I was wondering if there was any way in PHP to pass an external download off to a user? What I would like to do with the script is depending on certain conditions, send the user a file from server A or server B. However, I don’t want the user to know the direct url to either server.

Ex:
User visits (which is on server C): http://example.com/download?id=1234
Server A’s Address to file: http://servera.com/1234.exe
Server B’s Address to file: http://serverb.com/1234.exe

Is there a way, that when someone visits http://example.com/download?id=1234, to send them the download of the other servers without giving the user the direct URL? I know I can do a file([external file here]). But I do not want all the bandwidth going through server C. Server C is pretty much just a redirect.

Thanks,
James

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  1. Editorial Team

    The client must know at some level which server they are downloading from, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to connect to it.

    EDIT:

    If you don’t want the address bar of the browser to change, you can try using the Content-disposition header like so:

    header("Content-disposition: attachment;filename=1234.exe");
//then output the file contents

    Note: this PHP script has to be on server A and server B. So server C will redirect to either http://servera.com/download.php or http://serverb.com/download.php.

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